BOCA RATON, Fla. – The University of Maine softball team fell to Louisville and Seton Hall on the second day of the Joan Joyce Classic. The Black Bears dropped an 8-0 game to the Cardinals and a 9-3 contest to the Pirates.

Game 7
Score: Louisville 8, Maine 0
Records: Louisville 9-1, Maine 0-7
Stadium: FAU Softball Stadium

How it Happened

• After two scoreless innings, the Cardinals pushed four runs across in the top of the third inning on a two-run single and a two-run double.
• Both teams went scoreless and left runners on base over the next two innings, with the Black Bears loading the bases in the bottom of the fifth.
• The Cardinals then had an RBI single and a three-run home run in the top half of the sixth … in the bottom half, Anna Margetis doubled but was left on second for the 8-0 run rule final.

Game Notes

• Isabelle True started, going 2.1 innings while allowing four runs on four hits and striking out one while waking three … Caitlyn Fallon went 3.0 innings in relief, allowing four runs on six hits with three walks … Kaly Thomas threw 0.2 innings of no-hit relief.
• Kenedee Giddens, Krista Francia, Margetis and Katie Jo Moery all went 1-for-3 at the plate. 

Game 8
Score: Seton Hall 9, Maine 3
Records: Seton Hall 1-2, Maine 0-8
Stadium: FAU Softball Stadium

How it Happened

• The Pirates jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first and pushed one more across in the second for a 5-0 lead after two.
• Rylee Kent doubled to center in the third but was stranded and Seton Hall made it 6-0 in the top of the fourth.
• After a scoreless fifth frame, Maine scored three runs in the sixth … Kent and Kyli Hernandez had back-to-back singles to start things off and then Fallon doubled to center to score both … a Margetis double then scored Fallon.
• The Pirates touched up Maine for two more runs in the seventh and Maine was unable to push anymore across in the bottom half of the inning.

Game Notes

• Alysen Rieth started, throwing 0.1 innings while allowing four runs on two hits and two walks … Ava Zettlemoyer (3.0 innings, three runs, five hits, two walks, one strikeout) and True (3.0 innings, two runs, five hits, two walks, two strikeouts) and Thomas (0.2 innings, zero runs, one hit, one strikeout) went in relief.
• Kent led Maine at the plate, going 2-for-3 with one double and one single … Fallon was 1-for-1 with a two-RBI double … Hernandez was 1-for-1 while Margetis was 1-for-3 and T Smith was 1-for-2 with a walk.

• The Black Bears will be off this week before returning to action in Delaware at the Blue Hen Classic.
• Maine will face Delaware, Bucknell and Fairfield on March 1-3.